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    Conversations with Researchers

    Listen to people discussing their research and its findings.

    Emilia Jamroziak Oct 2009

    21 October 09

    Phase 1 Small Grant holder Emilia Jamroziak describes her research into the survival and success of Cistercian monasteries in border …
    Methodist Central Halls as Public Sacred Spaces

    08 April 10

    Religious architecture has left a mark on Britain’s landscape. But in the centres of cities and major towns buildings can …
    Methodist Central Halls Short Version

    26 May 10

    Listen to a shorter version of Norman Winter’s interview with PhD student Angela Connelly. She is funded by a Phase …

    Sexuality & Global Faith Networks

    Gill Valentine 2 of 3 Oct 2009

    21 October 09

    Phase 1 Large Grant holder Gill Valentine engages in more detailed discussion of the complexity of the study, particularly with regard …
    Gill Valentine 3 of 3 Oct 2009

    21 October 09

    Phase 1 Large Grant holder Gill Valentine discusses the value of the research both as an impartial analysis of history …

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    Trust & Religiosity

    Robert Hoffmann 1 of 2 Feb 2010

    10 February 10

    Phase 1 Small Grant holder Robert Hoffmann of Nottingham University describes to Norman Winter the experimental method using simple decision-making …
    Robert Hoffmann summary Feb 2010

    10 February 10

    Phase 1 Small Grant holder Robert Hoffmann of the International Centre for Behavioural Business Research at Nottingham University talks with …

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    Media Portayals of Religion

    Kim Knott Complete Interview Oct 2009

    21 October 09

    Principal Investigator on Phase 1 Large Grant ‘Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred’ Professor Kim Knott talks with Norman …
    Kim Knott 3 of 3 Oct 2009

    21 October 09

    Kim Knott (Principal Investigator on Phase 1 Large Grant ‘Media portrayals of religion and the secular sacred’) assesses the value …

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    Dissenting Academies

    Isabel Rivers Summary Dec 2009

    10 December 09

    Professor Isabel Rivers, a Phase 2 Large Grant holder, summarises, in conversation with Norman Winter, the contribution being funded by the …
    Isabel Rivers 2 of 2 Dec 2009

    10 December 09

    Listen to the concluding section of the full conversation, in which Professor Isabel Rivers describes the ambitious scope of the Dissenting …

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    British Religion in Numbers

    British Religion in Numbers April 2010

    08 April 10

    A great leap forward in accessing facts and figures on religion in Britain has been made possible by a project …
    David Voas and Siobhan McAndrew extract 1 of 2 April 2010

    08 April 10

    David Voas and Siobhan McAndrew talk about British Religion in Numbers [BRIN], launched publicly as a free-to-use online resource in …

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    Marginalized Spiritualities

    Marginalized Spiritualities

    07 April 10

    How engaged are young people in our cities in forms of religion, either conventional or new? Two studies conducted at …
    Marginalized Spiritualities Complete Conversation

    07 April 10

    Betsy Olson describes the connection between two studies of spirituality among young people. The first, conducted in Glasgow, revealed great differences …

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    Being British and Being Muslim

    From hijab to jilbab

    21 April 10

    Kaye Haw talks about her Phase 1 Small Grant studying one Muslim community in the Midlands, fifteen years on from …
    Being British and being Muslim

    21 April 10

    What lies behind Muslim women choosing more noticeable forms of Islamic dress? One Phase 1 Small Grant has probed the choices being …

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    Religion, Youth and Sexuality

    Youth, Religion and Sexuality

    15 April 10

    A research team from Nottingham’s universities have engaged the interest and help of young volunteers in a study which breaks …
    Youth, Religion and Sexuality Complete Interview

    15 April 10

    Sarah-Jane Page and Michael Keenan summarise key aspects of their study into Religion, Youth and Sexuality (a Phase 2 Large Grant …

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    Woodland Burial

    Burial study breaks new ground

    02 April 10

    In the space of just 20 years a new kind of burial practice which started in the UK has grown …
    Natural Burial – Hannah Rumble extract 1 of 2 April 2010

    02 April 10

    Hannah Rumble talks about her doctoral study of woodland burial. Many people are opting for natural burial and over 200 …

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    Religion and Change in Modern Britain

    Contributors to this book discussing their writing.

    Paul Weller: Controversies as a Lens on Change

    16 February 12

    “Controversies as a lens on change” is the title of the opening chapter of Religion and Change in Modern Britain (published …
    Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto: Religion and Change

    16 February 12

    Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto are the editors of Religion and Change in Modern Britain (published Feb 2012 by Routledge). In …

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    Radicalisation Research

    Mark Sedgwick

    07 March 12

    Mark Sedgwick, Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, is a leading academic expert on the subject of …
    Mark Sedgwick 1 of 3

    07 March 12

    Mark Sedgwick, Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University, is a leading academic expert on the subject of …

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